Thanks for the report and the investigation!

Matthew Vernon writes ("Bug#1050179: dgit: unable to clone -security suites 
(?since bullseye)"):
> The difficulty is that there is AFAICT no version-knowledge in these
> map/rmap entries - one would prefer to apply the map for suites <
> bullseye and not for >=bullseye

The usual approach is to list *all* old codenames (at least, any that
still have any existence anywhere) and assume that unknown codenames
are newer.

> IMO, this would be worth a backport to at least stable when fixed -
> it's a bit sad that this functionality is broken since it's quite
> useful for end-users of dgit and helps make sure they get security
> updates.

I agree.

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